Digital Detectives Mysteries combine books and the Internet, allowing kids to use the latest technology to investigate crime scenes, interrogate witnesses, and make notes in a journal. With the help of our free online Crime Lab, you'll be on your way to solving the crime in no time! The Case of the Killer Bugs: Someone is selling pirated copies of the smash hit game Insect Invaders-complete with a vicious virus that eats kids' computers alive! Now the Digital Detectives must determine who created the deadly disks. To help solve the crime, readers will make interactive online searches of an abandoned warehouse, the North End docks, a high-tech career fair, and much more.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Useless Book w/ out the (Chronically Unavailable) Website,
By Richard (Ashburn, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Digital Detectives Mysteries #1: Case of the Killer Bugs (Paperback)
The basic premise is that to read this book and solve mysteries you must periodically logon to their website. Depending on what happens on the website, you will be given the page number to continue reading the book.All we get from the website is "http Error 500--Internal Server Error". Can't create a User-ID, can't explore clues, and therefore cannot reasonably continue past page 22 of the book. Interesting that a failure to maintain a web-server can instantly render useless all previously sold related product (books). I'm not aware of anyone destroying a product-line quite so quickly and easily before (though I'm sure it's happened). Why did I rate this w/ only 1 star? Maybe because Amazon doesn't offer an option of "Minus 10 stars"... By the way, you can ping the website and get a decent turnaround time (about 150 to 170 milliseconds for us), but don't be mislead--it appears they are continuing to have catastrophic and unrecoverable problems w/ their server. Oh, one more thing. I clicked on their "contact support" link and sent an e-mail describing the problems. The e-mail bounced back: their support e-address is no longer working (I presume it did at some time). So, don't waste your time (or your parent's/children's time). Until this site has been up and running succesfully for at least 6 months to a year, I wouldn't trust it. Needless to say, just my humble opinion...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
website connected book without a website,
By A Customer
This review is from: Digital Detectives Mysteries #1: Case of the Killer Bugs (Paperback)
This series of mysteries (Digital Detectives) requires that you read part of the story, picking up clues and information. Then you are to go to the books website to search for more clues and directions on how to solve the mystery and proceed with your reading in the book. ONE BIG PROBLEM.. the WEB SITE IS NOT FUNCTIONING....IT's NOT AVAILABLE..For the last month we have been trying to access the website...but no response... Numerous contacts with the publisher have been met with empty promises.. Yes, we are aware of the problem. Yes, someone is looking into it. Yes, we will have the technical problems worked out by next week...hopefully. And that was close to a month ago. Still no functioning website. My words of advice about this series...don't buy it! The publisher is not supporting the website, and without the website, the mystery is dead in the water.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Digital Detectives #1: The Case of the Killer Bugs,
By Mark (Drexel Hill, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Digital Detectives Mysteries #1: Case of the Killer Bugs (Paperback)
This book is really awesome! The web scenes are so fun. I can't wait to get Digital Detectives #2.
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Jason the Destroyer has a bead on a grasshopper, and it's a big one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Bug Man, Sandra Cye, Digital Detectives, Darren Cox, Satellite Jack, Crescent Bay, Russ Hodges, Officer Gallegos, Old Walter, Jason the Destroyer, Kyle Purdue, Branch Avenue, Mega Mantis, Stop the Insect Child Killers, Zeus Protection Systems New!
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Jason the Destroyer has a bead on a grasshopper, and it's a big one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
secret level, blue pickup truck, suspect list Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bug Man, Sandra Cye, Digital Detectives, Darren Cox, Satellite Jack, Crescent Bay, Russ Hodges, Officer Gallegos, Old Walter, Jason the Destroyer, Kyle Purdue, Branch Avenue, Mega Mantis, Stop the Insect Child Killers, Zeus Protection Systems New!
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